No Relief for Union-Bullied Workers

Updated March 15, 2002 12:01 a.m. ET

Linda Chavez, in her March 6 editorial-page piece "Shays-Meehan Gives Unions a Free Ride," is right that the so-called campaign finance "reform" bill now before the Senate "fails to correct perhaps the single most intolerable form of real campaign abuse" -- misuse of compulsory union dues for politics. However, as one of the attorneys who litigated Communications Workers v. Beck, the Supreme Court case she cites, I must correct an error made in describing that decision.